Norm

Social Norms, Rules, and Expectations in To Kill a Mockingbird Although social norms, rules and expectations form the structure of a community, when the norms are to discriminate, the community fails individuals and groups, and everybody suffers. The racist and sexist social norms, rules and expectations in the South in the 1930's in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, create the difficulties that the main protagonists face. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator of the story, is a…

Introduction Norms and Values are a major influence on socialization in today’s society. People today tend to follow what they have been thought or what they are used to since a very young age. The family is one of the most important influences of socialization. Parent’s values and how they act and behave in certain situations is a big influence on their children. Friends, peers and school society is another important influence of socialization. When we see how our parents or peers react to a…

My doll reflects an intersectional understanding by reinforcing that, the dominant beauty norms can be seen as attractive in the dominant culture, but can be viewed less in another culture. Note that, some countries highly value the norms that my doll portrays. In other words, straight, long, blond hair is a dominant beauty norm in the white culture, but in a black culture, this hair perspective is viewed the same or even less than having a dark, short, curly hair. If my doll does not wear…

The crowd was mixed with both males and females. I was going to behave like one of the boys tonight. I invited Jasmine, one of my friends so that she can be my observer. The norm that I decided to break was to partake in drinking that males normally do, i.e. beer pong and a keg stand. I consider this breaking a gender norm because it is a competition between the males.…

am Breaking Social Norms There are many norms in our society that tells us how to act in a certain situation. We learn about these norms through our families, schools and social media. Norms are “rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members” (Macionis, 69). For this project, I decided to break the norm of personal space. We learn in our society that everyone has their personal space and that it is rude for someone to break into this space. This norm is considered…

Violating A Social Norm at McDonalds Hi! This is your pilot speaking. Welcome aboard with Jennifer on this W254 flight as we begin our takeoff. Sorry for the delay as this is a last minute flight. There are no flight attendants because of a short of staff. So if you have a problem with customer service, I will see you in the grade book. On you right and left are emergency margins. When taking the exit, leave your opinions there. Unfortunately, we ran out of barf bags so if we make you too dizzy,…

Lets Make it A Hobby One of my hobbies is to break a norm. When I first heard about breaking a norm was in 2014, one of my friends mentioned it while we were talking about my major, psychology. She told me she is in a class where she needs to break a norm, I personally did not knew what that meant until she explained it. After she explained that breaking the norm is basically going against what society considers to be normal, I realized what I was missing as a person. When I came to United…

Throughout the years society has had a large role in gender norms and their influences on family roles. They have impacted the ways in which families function on a daily basis. But what if a family only has one parent; do gender norms extend to them? Yes. It is common to see gender norms within single parent families in society. Gender norms expect women to stay at home and men to go out into the workplace as stated above, but these gender norms are slowly starting to shift due to the fact that…

happens if someone disrupts the norm or switches things up? Let me tell you about some interesting facts about eating dessert after dinner, and how I broke the norm by eating the complete opposite. The actual definition of the word dessert is “usually sweet course or dish usually served at the end of a meal” (Merriam-Webster). So by definition,…

Standardized tests are bringing this nation down, they expect students to memorize a plethora of information that they most likely will never need in their future. Standardized tests are currently a very controversial issue, should they be kept to keep an equal grading system for students, or should tests be more tailored to students so that everyone can show off their individual skills rather than what they have memorized. Standardized tests force teachers to teach to them rather than teaching…